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Rebels of the Neon God 1992
Tsai Ming-liang made amazing cigarette movies right from the start it turns out, even if this one’s rhythms are a little off. Needs more Lee Kang-sheng.
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The Wayward Cloud 2005
One of Tsai’s cheeriest movies, I thought for a long time before the dream shattered and the packed cinema went mostly quiet save a few excruciating uncomfortable coughed out laughs. That the previous 100 or so minutes keep returning to the limits and fragility of fantasy, filmic and otherwise, did not prepare me for the collapse of pleasure into terror because so strongly I wanted to live forever in the quiet lived-in intimacy of the smoking cigarette in between toes. It can’t last. I thought of Roger Watkins’ Decadence and shivered.
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The Nightingale 2018
Felt like my eyes were trying rattle out of my skull, like the worst, most performatively woke twitter feed was pulling me into the abyss with its fingers in my nostrils.
Suggests that a single woman's assault and loss (and of course - as fellow lboxd user Lucinda pointed out to me after the film - goes out of its way to suggest her lost agency is perhaps more tied into her proto nuclear family than her rape) is equivalent…
